Friday, April 18th, 2008
Session of VMS#4 is going to be on the June 7th 2008, Saturday, as part of non-conference "MediaBarCamp". The topic of VMS#4 is "DIY media (do it yourself) and practice of media activism".
We will try to understand media activism as self-representation. And as a case studies we will ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
On 17th of October was held the third session of Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS). The goal of VMS3 was to rethink and discuss media activism in the context of public space and sphere. Young philosophers, sociologists, architects, artists and activists gathered to compare two case studies from Lithuania and Belarus. ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
This text is based on the presentation made in VMS#3 in 17th of October, Vilnius.
Tactical media’s effectiveness is measured against its documentation and representation in the mass media. The documentation of the event is necessary to make the event visible which raises the question; in what way is it visible?
Moreover, ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Let’s start from with a little joke about what is happening now in a globalizing world.
Pessimists study Chinese
Optimists study English.
Realists only study the Kalashnikoff…
If we try to export these rules for the current situation in the media sphere, especially in Belarus, we (as realists) will immediately begin to study tactical ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
We are publishing Alexei Krivolap’s presentation which was done on the 2nd session of Vilnius Media Seminar (VMS) "Strategies of Tactical Media: Noise Makes Sense" on 19th of February, 2007.
Let’s start from one small example. Awake after a good party we often have a headache, or let’s be more exact: a hangover. There are two ...
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